Course Catalog 2006-2007

TME-2506 INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMAL DESIGN, 5 cr
Introduction to Optimal Design

Courses persons responsible
Juhani Koski

Lecturers
Juhani Koski

Language of Instruction
Exercises, course literature and exam in English available.

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture 3 h/week 3 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exercise 2 h/week 2 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
Basic skills in design optimization.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Formulation of optimization problem in engineering design. Unconstrained and constrained optimization. Algorithms and optimality conditions. Sensitivity analysis. Continuous, discrete and mixed integer problems. Conflicting design criteria and Pareto optimality. Linear and nonlinear programming. Optimal control theory. Plenty of applications in different fields of engineering design.       

Requirements for completing the course
Exercises and a written examination.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Passed written examination or written intermediate examinations and accepted exercises.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book Optimization Concepts and Applications in Engineering A., D., Belegundu and T., R., Chandrupatla     Prentice-Hall, 1999 Yes  English 
    Book Introduction to Optimal Design J., S., Arora     McGraw-Hill, 1989 No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Remarks

    Suitable for all educational programmes.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 54 %
    - Distance learning: 0 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 46 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 84
    Exercises 45
    Total sum 129

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    Last modified 20.04.2006
    Modified byTapio Salmi